Post your Train shots!

[crashton]

Nice shot Sandpatch. Glad the locals didn't take a pot shot at you.

 

[Sandpatch]

Thanks Chuck. What I didn't mention is that I first stopped at another spot and someone called the cops on me! I heard the CSX Dispatcher tell the crew on my scanner radio to "look out for someone on the tracks"! Good grief. There's always going to be someone who thinks they've spotted the next Bin Laden. In my case, the suspect is an aging guy with grey hair toting a Nikon who once worked for the railroad and always stays safe.

 

[crashton]

Thanks Chuck. What I didn't mention is that I first stopped at another spot and someone called the cops on me! I heard the CSX Dispatcher tell the crew on my scanner radio to "look out for someone on the tracks"! Good grief. There's always going to be someone who thinks they've spotted the next Bin Laden. In my case, the suspect is an aging guy with grey hair toting a Nikon who once worked for the railroad and always stays safe.

Wow! Glad you escaped unscathed. It sure isn't like it used to be, stay safe my friend.

 

[Beanbagfrags]

Had some time to kill this evening...so took both cameras into a local town to watch the "Holiday Train" roll in. Chaos it was in the actual place where it was planning on stopping, so I walked about 1km down tracks from where it was stopping.

Camera 1- Nikon D3 with Nikon 50mm 1.4D and SB-800 Flash.
Camera 2- Nikon D7000 with Nikon 10.5mm Fisheye


All have been unedited, straight off camera.

 

[Sandpatch]

Neat to see CP spreading cheer!

 

[Needa]

Early morning crossing at the New River draw bridge.



Coming out of the port to pickup some container cars.

 

[Sandpatch]

Great shots Needa - the lighting is especially neat. Those are such fine looking units.

 

[Sandpatch]

April 2005 at Tateville, KY on NS's famous "Rathole" between Chattanooga, TN and Cincinnati, OH. Shot with my Nikon N2020, probably on some sort of Fujichrome. I'd love to get back there some day.

 

[Bikerbrent_RIP]

Unfortunately trains are so boring now. Other than the scenic lines, it is so much the same. No keeping track of how many different railroad line or product cars you have spotted. No Cabooses. All passenger trains are the same Amtrak paint scheme. All freight locomotives are basically one of four paint schemes.

 

[Lalam]

Unfortunately trains are so boring now. Other than the scenic lines, it is so much the same. No Cabooses. All freight locomotives are basically one of four paint schemes.

Fortunately, here, we still have some of the things you have mentioned above. But electrification is coming up soon to reduce the chances of getting clear images like below.
D3300, F13, S320,ISO100, 18-55 kit lens at 32mm

 

[crashton]

Unfortunately trains are so boring now. Other than the scenic lines, it is so much the same. No keeping track of how many different railroad line or product cars you have spotted. No Cabooses. All passenger trains are the same Amtrak paint scheme. All freight locomotives are basically one of four paint schemes.

I agree with you. Maybe when someone comes up with a Way-Back machine I can revisit the trains & places I missed the first time around.

 

[Sandpatch]

I miss the railroad structures, like depots, section houses and interlocking towers, as they made wonderful photo props. A number of us here also miss the old signals. At least we still have some cool bridges.

Nikon N2020 Kodachrome, Maybeury, WV, 10/16/1993:

 

[crashton]

The bridges will stay as it costs too much to replace them. The days of interesting trackside architecture have long gone. More sadness.

Nice shot of that coal drag crossing a massively overbuilt bridge Sandpatch.

 

[Marilynne]

Shuttle flew by real fast

had four of these attached

 

[Sandpatch]

< Shuttle flew by real fast >

Nice! That's a fine looking roadbed, perfectly profiled and with concrete ties too. Those are side-dump ballast cars.

 

[Marilynne]

< Shuttle flew by real fast >

Nice! That's a fine looking roadbed, perfectly profiled and with concrete ties too. Those are side-dump ballast cars.

The roadbed was laid about a month ago. Remember my alien machine in post #1743?

 

[Sandpatch]

June 1997 at Maine, AZ on the AT&SF mainline. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[crashton]

Very nice Sandpatch. Nice signal bridge & love the war bonnets. Wish I had some of that warm weather here now.

 

[Sandpatch]

Thank you Chuck. My wife and I vacationed west several times before starting our family and we came to the realization that it's impossible to take a poor photo on the Santa Fe mainline.

Shot this the next day at Williams, AZ:

 

[Sandpatch]

One of my goals in 2017 is to finally buy a decent 35mm slide scanner, probably the Epson V600. Everything I post here was scanned long ago on my old HP scanner like this and most at a tiny file size of 100KB!